Night out for wine and food lovers

Hapening 6-8pm Tuesday 20 October, Wellington be there and be among the first to sample new release and award-winning wines from the Wairarapa sub-regions of Martinborough, Gladstone and Masterton, and discover how various foods accentuate different flavours in the wine.

Wines from the region are small in size but huge in style. Distinctively boutique, they achieve international acclaim for intensity of flavour. It is the genuine cool climate that creates this food friendly style.

Want to stay longer and see more of Wellington? Then move around through Campers New Zealand. Join “A dream night out for wine and food lovers” for an opportunity to taste a fine collection of wines from 30 of the regions wineries – including gems from artisan vineyards that are not widely available. See you at the Atrium, Chaffers Dock Building, 1 Herd St, Wellington. Want to know more? Visit A dream night out for wine and food lovers.

The Dunedin Rhododendron Festival

Dunedin, with great pleasure, welcomes garden and Rhododendron lovers to the city during Rhododendron Festival 2007 to view the spectacular displays of Rhododendrons in private and public gardens.

Diverse microclimates abound in Dunedin’s temperate coastal setting providing a variety of environments for Rhododendrons and plants from around the world.

The week-long Dunedin Rhododendron Festival offers more than 50 events, including wine and food tastings in the Larnach Castle gardens, art in Glenfalloch gardens, garden tours and demonstrations. Dunedin has an ideal climate for rhododendrons and azaleas which thrive in private gardens, as well as three gardens of ‘national significance’.

More info about this? Visit Dunedin Rhododendron Festival. Or contact tel: (03) 477 1092 and or e-mail to info@rhododunedin.co.nz

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Wildfoods Festival

The Wildfoods Festival is a celebration of the West Coast’s unique lifestyle, food and hospitality and takes place at Cass Square, a focal point in the centre of Hokitika. Every year an extravaganza of gourmet bushtucker, based on the West Coast’s natural food sources, from the land and sea, is presented in an innovative manner!…..Read more about this travel buzz @ Campervan hire New Zealand

What’s up this March on the Travel Buzz

Melbourne’s Food and Wine Festival
200 events over 17 days: The festival showcases Melbourne’s iconic food & wine scene. Delivering a giddying feast for the senses at over 200 events across 17 delicious days, the 2009. Melbourne Food and Wine Festival presented by The Age will take place from 7 – 23 March 2009……Campervan hire Australia

Golden Shears
You can’t talk about New Zealand without mentioning sheep, and this event is where every single sheep and anything related to it get together for a competition where speed and efficiency are of importance. Bring your shears and a warm woolly jumper. The Golden Shears 2008 Premier Sheering and Wool handling Championship will hit New Zealand during the 28th, 29th and 1st of March….. Campervan hire New Zealand

Golden Shears

You can’t talk about New Zealand without mentioning sheep, and this event is where every single sheep and anything related to it get together for a competition where speed and efficiency are of importance. Bring your shears and a warm woolly jumper. The Golden Shears 2008 Premier Sheering and Wool handling Championship will hit New Zealand during the 28th, 29th and 1st of March…..Find out more at Campervan hire New Zealand

Cuba Street Carnival

At Wellington’s free, spectacular Cuba Street Carnival a global mix of music and dance expresses the city’s animated cultural diversity. The first Cuba St Carnival on 21 February 1999 celebrated the distinctive artistic culture of Wellington’s most loved street with an audience of 15,000. The spectacular growth in popularity over 10 years now….Read more @ The Travel Site: Motorhome hire New Zealand

What’s on This February on Travel

The Waiheke Wine Festival
The ‘Island of Wine’ has a brand new major wine event. The Waiheke Wine Festival is a special celebration of the fruits of this unique island producing area with its sub-tropical climate, perfect soil and dedicated award winning internationally acclaimed growers. The event is aimed at those who take their wine seriously and appreciate good food matched with a fine red or white……..read more
The Moreton Bay Challenge at Redcliffe Parade & Foreshore
Triathlon Australia presents the Challenge Series, a sequence of multisport events that takes place across the country between November and April. The Moreton Bay Challenge at Redcliffe Parade & Foreshore is the third of the series. Over the three days, people of all ages, shapes and sizes turn up to put their athletic abilities to the test…….read more

Groundhog Day
The annual ceremony in Punxsutawney might be the best-known in the United States, but Pennsylvania isn’t the only state to celebrate Groundhog Day. At the Yellow River Game Ranch in deepest Georgia, a local woodchuck known as General Beauregard Lee (Ph.D) has been making his own early-morning weather-prognostications for more than 20 years amd the form, as always, is simple………read more

What’s up in January?

Blues, Brews & BBQ’s
The festivals are a celebration of everything that is unique about the traditional kiwi summer lifestyle; our love of outdoor cooking, great music and enjoying an ale or two with good friends and family. And Blues, Brews & BBQ’s is one of the most popular events on the summer calendar – a family fun day of barbecue fare, fine ales and great music that is held at the A & P Showgrounds Blenheim , Marlborough…Read more @….Motorhome rental New Zealand
Poatina Resort Village’s Australia Day Family Festival
What better way to celebrate the country than with Australia Day?! Australia Day brings all states, cultures, people and walks of life together. Celebrate the people, the land, diversity, indigenous cultures, freedom and democracy with hundreds of events throughout the country…Read more @…Motorhome hire Australia

Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition
When the weather outside is frightful, the Rockford area is delightful! That’s because Rockford is home to the annual Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition. Nearly 30 teams from around the state work on 5-ton blocks of compacted snow to create huge works of frozen art……Read more @..USA RV rental

World Buskers Festival

The World Buskers Festival is the largest street performance festival in Australasia and one of the best festivals of its type in the world. With over 450 circus, street and comedy shows, performed by more than 40 local, national and international artists, the World Buskers Festival provides audiences with more than 500 hours of world-class entertainment at 13 different venues, check out Motorhome rental New Zealand Travel Information Site for more about the World Buskers Festival!!

Great FitzRoy Mussel Fest 2009

body { background: #fff; font:85% Georgia; margin: 5px; padding: 0px; }The annual Great FitzRoy Mussel Fest is on at The Boat Club at Port FitzRoy on Great Barrier Island. With the Boat Club still the center for the food stalls, and patrons entertained during the day by The Great Brain Robbers blues band, the Landing Reserve became the alcohol free venue for the other stalls, as well as a bouncy bus and a huge inflated slide for the kids. It has to be said that some of the kids must have been in their second childhood.  For more great reads about the Great FitzRoy Mussel Fest 2009, check out Motorhome rental New Zealand for more travel buzz!